Falcone. An extremely rare limited edition 18K pink gold assymetrical wristwatch with phases of the moon, after Dali

SIGNED DF FOR DINO FALCONE, 1988

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Falcone. An extremely rare limited edition 18K pink gold assymetrical wristwatch with phases of the moon, after Dali
Signed DF for Dino Falcone, 1988
With circular nickel-finished lever movement, 17 jewels, modified for the eccentric minute hand, the white enamel dial with Arabic numerals, aperture for the phases of the moon, eccentric dial for the minutes with Arabic numerals, bent blued steel moon-style hands, eccentric subsidiary seconds with bent blued steel hand, in assymetrical case with snap on back, bent horn lugs, together with an 18K pink gold assymetrical Falcone buckle, case and dial signed DF for Dino Falcone, movement signed Sarcar
40 mm. long

Lot Essay

The Falcone brothers Dino and Roberto, watchmakers in Milan, produced only two examples of this model. This watch is the second, made in 1988.

It is designed after the 'limp' watch in Salvador Dali's painting The Persistence of Memory, 1931, exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Dali got his inspiration for the 'limp' watch from Camembert cheese and described it with the phrase "nothing else than the tender, extravagant and solitary paranoic-critical Camembert of time and space".

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